Origin of Species

Location

Country: Argentina
City: Buenos Aires
Place: British Embassy

Born in Dunvant, a mining village near Swansea, Ceri Richards studied at Swansea School of Art. In the early 1920s, he attended the Royal College of Art where he later taught, in addition to teaching at the Slade and Chelsea School of Art. He often returned to the Gower Peninsula in Wales, which inspired his work. Richards became Head of Painting at Cardiff School of Art during the Second World War. In 1961 he won a gold medal at the National Eisteddfod and in 1962, won the Einaudi Painting Prize at the Venice Biennale. A versatile artist, he made prints, collages, reliefs, costume designs and paintings. He was a Tate Trustee from 1958 to 1965, and received a CBE in 1961. After Richards’ death, major exhibitions of his work were held in Cardiff, Chichester and London.

Places

Subjects

abstract, semi-figurative, plant, flower

Materials & Techniques

screenprint

Artist

Ceri Richards (1903 - 1971)

Title

Origin of Species

Edition

47/75

Date

1971

Medium

Screenprint

Acquisition

Purchased from Marlborough Graphics, March 1976

Inscription

below image: 47/75 / Ceri Richards 71

GAC number

12270